History of the English language

“Basically they are in the middle between two different worlds and that’s the dilemma. That’s the struggle.” (Martha H. Bigelow; Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land pg. 94). First generation immigrants are torn between multiple cultures, with their parents' views different from the views of the country they are raised in. Through this, first generation immigrants struggle with finding themselves in life and don’t feel as if they belong to…

Language barrier is another reason to considerable for the immigrants. Additional, the language barrier is a common reason and challenge for immigrant, but it also could affect a lot to individual's development in the new country. They might have to face prejudice in different way within the community where they live in. Many immigrants are a source of cheap labor because they don’t have the ability to speak a new language. Beside, others face bully and abuse in their community, especially…

political barriers. Barriers that have not discourage me from achieving my dreams but instead have only amplified my aspirations. To become successful in the United States, one has to be able to speak English as easily as one breathes air. For me, coming from a foreign country, learning this new language was not an easy task. When I first came to the US, I was the lowest ranked student in my class. My teachers struggled to help me because few of them spoke any Spanish. Without any help, I…

place with a whole new language. Immigrants have to learn how to overcome the problems they face in order to get a job, have family, etc. Also, It would be very difficult to be in their situation not knowing a thing someone is saying. If that was you, most likely you would feel uncomfortable and out of the ordinary. Throughout immigrants lives, some of them need to make big decisions such as moving to America. Both men, women, and children need to learn new ways of speaking english, trying to…

As a kid I grew up around Spanish and English, being bilingual has helped a lot I life in communicating with family, friends and even strangers because being Hispanic most don’t know English or don’t like to speak English. English had become my first language then Spanish because of school. I grew up speaking Spanish at home but it was not fluent at first it was more English with a few Spanish words here and there, today that would be considered Spanglish but it wasn’t even that. When it came to…

When introduced to her new home, she was expected to convert to a language she found inexpressive and difficult. The lack of meaning in words caused her to struggle with basic tasks and caused her to feel distant from people. I can see where Hoffman would be confused trying to learn a “cold” English language, because eve with years of experience writing and speaking the language, I still don’t understand some of the rules of English. In some places of the passage, Hoffman states that she misses…

My parents met and married in Mexico City, and a few years later they had me. When I had just turned one, my parents packed up our family, and we traveled thousands of miles to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then five years after we moved, I became a big sister of twin boys. My family is a mixture of Mexican and American citizens, but we believe in the importance in taking pride of our native culture. My parents made sure that my brothers and I knew Spanish, but they not only made sure we could speak it but…

He is originally from Honduras, and lives in the United States for the past four months. Him and his family are living illegally in the U.S., but that does not impede an illegal immigrant child from attending school in the U.S. Juan cannot speak English to communicate, this lack of communication creates tensions between him and his peers in school. His peers are taking his silence and lack of communication wrong, and they began to bully Juan. Juan went to his school counselor, this learner, to…

librarian, I practice written language every day. At no time had anyone raised attention to my writing style, I was positive I communicated properly. I was sure I practised correct grammar and punctuation consistently. My only concerns with writing had been my confidence with abstaining from being 'wordy' together with applying proper referencing. 'Wordiness' is part of my colloquial language, ‘long-winded’ as my family says. It occurred likewise in my written language and would make it…

who speak different languages use various ways to communicate with each other. Commonly, this bilingual conversation is full of language strategies that enhance meaning. One of these language strategies is the use of code-switching (Velásquez, 2010). Over the last twenty-five years the study of code-switching has become a flourishing research field in second language acquisition. It has received attention from such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, anthropology, language teaching,…